2013 Course 1 Essentials: Syllabus, Contact Hours & Outline, Instructor Vitae, and UCAS. The 2013 Students.
2013 Faculty Liaison: Prof. Jiahai Ma (Email: majia@ucas.ac.cn; Tel: 010-88256843).
Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs): Mr. Longfei Yuan (longfeiyuanbio@163.com) and Ms. Rongrong Guo (guorongrong11@mails.ucas.ac.cn).

Day #1 Introduction by Prof. Xiangjun Li. Presentation of Syllabus and Schedule, and Introduction of the Course Web Site. Textbooks (PPTX, PPT, PDF). Presentations on Mind-Mapping and Outlining (PPTX, PPT, PDF) and on Writing Text and Paragraphs (PPTX, PPT, PDF).
Day #2 Presentations on Summary, Paraphrase and Plagiarism (PPTX, PPT, PDF), on Tables (PPTX, PPT, PDF), and Schemes (PPTX, PPT, PDF).
Day #3 Presentations on Paper Sections and JOC Guidelines, on Descriptive Statistics and Regression (PPTX, PPT, PDF), and on Literature Searching (PPTX, PPT, PDF).
Day #4 Presentations on Publication Types (PPTX, PPT, PDF) and on Citation and Bibliography (PPTX, PPT, PDF). Test (Course Stats: Count = 200, Minimum = 41%, Maximum = 87%, Average = 73.8%, Std. Dev. = 3.9%, histogram).
Day #5 Presentations on ACS Ethical Guidelines on Peer Review. Yale Case Studies of Peer Review (PPT, PDF) with Comments (PDF).

Main Entry: writ.ing
Function: verb
form of human communication by means of a set of visible marks that are related, by convention, to some particular structural level of language.